Audio: High Country Views, episode 3

HCN editors dissect the news

The deck is looking increasingly stacked against coal in many Western states. With broad bipartisan support and endorsements from Xcel Energy, the natural gas industry and environmentalists, Colorado recently passed a bill that makes the conversion of three Front Range power plants from coal to natural gas almost a sure bet. Plans for a few new coal-fired power plants have been scrapped in Nevada, Utah and Montana, and as HCN recently reported, Desert Rock, a massive coal plant proposed on Navajo land in New Mexico, looks all but dead. Still, in Wyoming and Montana coal development continues moving ahead at a steady clip.

For our next podcast, we want to hear what's happening in your neck of the West! Call High Country Views anytime at (970) 497-1310 to leave us a short voicemail postcard. Tell us what's making news in your area or just how the landscape is changing this time of year. Whatever is happening where you are, we'd like to know about it.

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